1. Chapter 21 Life in the Industrial Age 1800-1914

2. The Industrial Revolution Spreads
Other countries such as U.S., Germany, and Belgium began to catch up with England. How?

3. Technology Sparks Industrial Growth
Alfred Noble
Thomas Edison
Interchangeable parts and the Assembly line
New communication:
New transportation:
Dynomite, light bulb, telegraph, radio, car, airplane, railroad

4. Business Takes a New Direction
Why did big businesses emerge?
Stock
Corporations
Monopolies
“captains of the industry or robber barons”?

5. Changing Attitudes and Values
Three social classes emerge
Women work for rights
Temperance movement
Women’s suffrage
What were the arguments against women's suffrage?

6. Growth of Public Education
Public education improves
Educated teachers
Middle class families
Why did more children attend school in the late 1800s than before?

7. Science Takes New Direction
Atomic theory develops
John Dalton (1869)
Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin (1859)
Debating the Earth’s Age
Charles Lyell (Principles of Geology)
Social Darwinism and Racism